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SYNERGISTIC EFFECTS OF MICROBIAL ANTAGONISTS AND ...

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special type of cross wall within the hypha, called dolipore septum; each cell ismultinucleate rather than binucleate; branches are produced at right angles; no asexualspores are produced. In general, the growth rate of R. solani is very rapid and a typicalisolate can grow across a YO mm petri plate in three days. Small, oval cells producedin branched chains or clusters are formed. These are called moniliod cells and haveslightly thicker walls than the mycelium. Large aggregates of these cells are calledsclerotia which are black to brown and 3-5 mm long. Parmeter (1970) has broughttogether and integrated all of the available information on R. solani in all it variousaspects, especially ecology and physiology of R. solani that directly or indirectlyprovides access to all the important work on this fungus.The hyphal cells of R. solani have many nuclei (commonly 4-8). Isolatesbelonging to R. solanr are classified into different anastomosis groups (AG) based onhyphal anastomosis, cultural morphology and pathogenicity (Sneh er a/., 1991).Currently, there are 12 AGs to which isolates of R. solani are assigned, Isolates ofR, solani from soybean belong to Ati-I, Ati-2-2, AG-4 or AG-5, although isolatesbelonging to AG-3 have also been reported to infect soybean (Jones and Belmar,1989; Nelson et 01.. 19%). AG-I and AG-2 are further subdivided into AG-I IA,AG-I IB and AG-I 1C and Ati-2-1 and AG-2-2. Subgroups AG-1 1A and 19 areprimarily foliar pathogens and cause aerial blight and web blight, respectively,whereas isolates in the remaining groups cause seed, root and stem rots. Thisdlstlnguishes it from similar fungi that have only 2 nuclei per cell. Those fungi withhyphal characteristic s~m~lar to R. solani, but with onl! 2 nuclei per cell, are calledbinucleate types and are generally non-pathogmic. Certain fungi closely resembleR. solani in mycel~al characteristics but possess predominantly binucleate hyphalcells. The perfect states of some of these binucleate Rhiroctonia-like fungi (RLF)

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